The Champs Elysees Avenue shooter was a french national, officials said. Photo: ReutersThe man responsible for a shootout in central Paris on Thursday was a French national, Belgian interior minister Jan Jambon told public broadcaster VRT. What we can confirm, is that the perpetrator was a French national," Jambon told VRT. French police have taken into custody three family members of the gunman, a legal source said on Friday. In November 2015, when Paris was rocked by near simultaneous gun-and-bomb attacks on entertainment sites, two of the 10 known perpetrators were Belgian citizens and others lived in Belgium.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 21, 2017 08:34 UTC